Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6696, John Drew, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Drew, John
R. 6,696
Brewster, Lois
or McDuffee
Former widow.
CONTENTS

This may certify John Drew and Lois Tucker was married August the Seventeenth day, seventeen hundred and eighty four by John Tucker Esq. Clerk being both of Barnstead.
I Enos George do hereby certify that I am town Clerk of the town of Barnstead in the county of Belknap formerly Strafford, and State of New Hampshire and that the above is a true copy of the records of said town, except the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legable figures as follows August the 17 Day 1704.
Enos George Town Clerk
State of New Hampshire Barnstead February 22 1841. Subscribed and sworn to by the above Enos George before me (David Murray Notary Public)

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State of New Hampshire carroll ss on this 18 th day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty one, before the subscriber a Judge of the court of common pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Lois McDuffie a resident of Wolfborough in said County, aged seventy four years last august, who, first being sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 1838, entitled an "Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she was married to Capt John Drew on the eighteenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty four at Barnstable in the County of Barnstable and State of Mass by John Tappan Esqr an acting justice of the Peace That she had by said Drew one child named Abigail which died at the age of four years. That she since has been married to Jonathan McDuffie. That the said John Drew died, on or about the fifteenth day of August eighteen hundred and eleven, and that the said Abigail died on on the twenty-seventh day of March A.D. 1815. She further declares that according to the best of her knowledge and belief, the said John Drew served in the Revolutionary War as follows As a captain at Winter Hill about two months in the year 1775. and 6 months from July 1776 at Ticonderoga in Col d Isaac Wyman's Reg t until June January

1777 to August Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight  The further declares that she is now the widow of  Jonathan McDuffie in the 2 d N Hampshire Regiment in Continental Callahamian. She further declares that she is now the widow of the said Jonathan McDuffie Lois McDuffie
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written, before me.
Nath l Rogers, Judge of said Court
I certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity attend the Court.
Nath l Rogers, Judge aforesaid

State of New Hampshire Keene ss
I Francis R. Chase Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that Nath l Rogers Esq was on the 18 th day of February A.D. 1841, a judge of said Court and that being well acquainted with his signature I have no doubt that the within purporting to be his signature is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 22 nd day of February A.D. 1841. F. R. Chase Clerk

I Sarah Brewster of Wolfborough in the County of Carroll and State of New Hampshire do hereby say that I am a daughter of Jonathan McDuffee late of said Wolfborough dec'd and Lois his Widow now residing with me in said Wolfborough That I have always understood and supposed that my mother was formerly the wife of Captain John Drew late of Barnstead and that the said Jonathan Dawson died on the 27 th day of March A.D. 1815 and that the said Lois re- marries her widow Sarah Brewster
State of New Hampshire
Wolfborough February 18. 1841. Subscribed and sworn to by the said Sarah Brewster. Who I hereby certify is a respectable, intelligent witness before me David Murray Notary Public for said State
I further depose and say for my mother the said Lois has no family record of marriage to the said John Drew or any memorandum of the birth his child by the said John Whitcomb , and I have always lived with her for eighty seven months. Sarah Brewster
Febry 20: 1841 Subscribed and sworn to Before me David Murray Notary Public

July 18, 1936
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Mrs. F. C. Burrill 1218 - 24th Street Longview, Washington
JOHN DREW am R. 6696 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Drew, William McDuffee and Daniel McDuffee, all of whom served as captains in the New Hampshire line, in the Revolution.
There are no claims for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of either William or Daniel McDuffee, under any spelling of the surname. Such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office. The record has been found of John Drew, which follows as obtained from the papers on file in his claim for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of John Drew are not given.
John Drew at the commencement of the Revolution was residing in Barrington, New Hampshire. He served at various times in the Revolutionary War as captain of a company of New Hampshire troops: in 1775, two months at Winter Hill; six months from July, 1776, at Ticonderoga in Colonel Isaac Wyman's New Hampshire regiment, and from January, 1777, to August, 1778, in the 2 nd New Hampshire Regiment; during his last tour he was in battles on September 19, and October 7, 1777, at the taking of Burgoyne.
John Drew married in Barnstead, Strafford County, New Hampshire, August 17, 1784 (as shown by official records), Lois Tasker who was born in August, 1766. At the time of their marriage he was a resident of Barnstead or Madbury, New Hampshire, and she of said Barnstead. They were married by one John Tasker, an acting justice of the peace, whose relationship to Lois Tasker was not shown. They had one child

named "Marke" who died at the age of four years. John Drew and his wife, Lois, were divorced shortly after marriage. He died August 15, 1809 or 1811.
Lois Drew married (date not given) before the death of John Drew, Jonathan McDuffee, of Alton, New Hampshire. Jonathan McDuffee and his wife, Lois, brought up a family of children, the only name given being "Sarah Brewster", a daughter, with whom the widow, Lois, was living in 1841, and who stated that her mother had lived with her with the exception of seven months. Jonathan McDuffee died March 26 or 27, 1815, in Wolfborough, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
Lois McDuffee married sometime in 1842 George Brewster, of Wolfborough, New Hampshire.
On May 17, 1839, Lois McDuffee, former widow of the soldier, John Drew, while residing in Wolfborough, New Hampshire, applied for pension that might have been due her on account of the Revolutionary War service of John Drew.
The claim was not allowed as she was not entitled to pension on account of having been divorced from John Drew, the soldier upon whose service in the Revolutionary War she based her claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLIER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

6696.
P.O. Lois M c Duffee
Service: Lois M c Duffee former m rs John Drew
REJECTED
Enlisted: Aug 9, 1906 , 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1917 June 26. Writing to Mrs. Everett Larson letter in Mrs. 514 8th Street 1933 Mar 31. " " Mary Drew - Mrs. 8

Her claim was not allowed, she was not entitled to pension as she had been divorced from John Drew

N. 7994.
Lois M c Duffee, N. 76.
Let. to Gardner Farlee Sep. 8. 1844
" " Pearson Coogswell Aug. 30. 45
Fraud - see Let. within
Letter to Hon. S. A. Wright
March 30. 1844
" to the same Nov. 26
1844
See second caveat
Act 7. July. 1838
N. 76 Act 1838. N o 7471
Lois M c Duffee - formerly widow of John Drew
Let to P. Coogswell
28 Nov 1840.
Act 7 July '38

Capt Drew. There is no evidence of the service in these papers except 1777 & 1778 amounting to about 20 Months, but David Waldron and Daniel Cushing were pensioned for service under him in 1775 2 or 3 Months and Jacob Sighton & Hannah Pinder Widows of Jeremiah Pinder were pensioned for service under him in 1776 Joseph Garswell a pensioner under Act of 1818 was also under service Drew in 1776 - Drew was appointed July 6 Making in 1775 - 3 Months - " 1776 - 6 - " - 1777 - 12 - " - 1778 - 7 - " - 28 Months -

of Herkirk D Barrrell of Alton in the County of Stafford and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am personally well ac- quainted with Lois Mc Duffee who gave the within Declaration and that she is the Widow as within Described and that her Husband died as within stated as near as I can recollect it is about thirty years since the within named Capt John Drew died as I preached his funeral sermon and that she is still the Widow as set forth in her Declara- tion as given this 17 th day of May 1839.
H. D. Buzzell
State of New Hampshire Stafford County ss May 17 th 1839 Then personally ap- peared the above named Herkirk D. Buzzell and made solemn Oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before me Reuben Logswell justice of the
Peace & Quorum throughout said State
I the justice of the peace do hereby certify that the above named H. D. Buzzell is personally well known to me and he is a Man of truth and veracity and a credible Witness —
Reuben Logswell Justice of Peace

State of New Hampshire Shafford p. I Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate of said county hereby certify that the within named Pearson Gayswell is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned within and for said county and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate of said county this seventeenth day of May 1839 -
Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate

Sir
Sen At
March 30. 569
The add d evidence in the case of Lois McDuffie who claims as the widow of her first husband capt. John Drew. I have the honor to inform has been examined & filed.
Her declaration is materially defective 1 st in not averring that she was left his widow when he died in 1811 2 nd in not stating the date of her marriage with McDuffie. & 3 rd in not stating that she is a widow now.
These amendments are required to be made in a statement before a Judge of a court of record.
Hon: J. A. Wright J. R.

Hon. J. Alongthe
Mar. 30. 44
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State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss. I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that David Murray Esq. of New- market in said County, is an acting Notary Public for said State duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission, as Notary Public, was dated on the twenty fourth day of June 1839, and will expire on the twenty third day of June A.D. 1844; and that his signatures to the foregoing certificates follow- ing the affidavits of Sarah Brewster (two of her affidavits) - of Lemuel B. Mason - of Esq. George - and of Winthrop Davis, are genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 24 th day of Feb- ruary A.D. 1841
John Kelly Reg. Probate

I Winthrop Davis of New Durham, county of Strafford and State of New Hampshire age seventy four years of age and upwards depose and say that I worked with Captain John Drew Jonathan who was the first husband Lois M c Duffee (widow of J c Duffee) and now living in Wolfborough, in the Spring of Seventeen hundred and eighty five . That the said John Drew was then living with the said Lois M c Duffee whose maiden name was Foster, as husband and wife: That they had at that time one child. That the whole piece was inserted in stead of six, before signing. That I was married fifty five years ago last December which was in December after I had been to work with said John Drew. That the said John and Lois then in Barnstead: That the John, at the commence- ment of the Revolution lived in Barrington or Hamp- shire. That the said John Drew and Lois had the reputation of being married, and that I never had any doubt that they were married
Winthrop Davis
State of New Hampshire February 20. 1841. Subscribed and sworn to by the said Winthrop Davis. before me David Burley. Notary Public

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
STRAFFORD SS.—On this Seventeenth day of May A. D. 1839. personally appeared before the Hon. Daniel C. Athkinson Judge — of the Court of Probate of said county Lois M c Duffee a resident of Wolfborough in the County of Strafford, aged Seventy three years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of was married to Capt John  who was a Drew who was a Captain in the State and regular troops in the Revolutionary War from New Hampshire as will appear in part by the annexed certificate of the Sec- retary of State, that she has no other knowledge of his services only as she always understood from him that he served about three years and/or the records of the services of the revolutionary officers & soldiers of New- Hampshire are now in the War and Pension department. She would respectfully refer the Commissioners of Pensions to the examination of those records for the particulars of his services as she has no other docu-men- tary evidence whatever.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Drew — — — on the eighteenth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four — that her husband, the aforesaid John Drew — — died on the  about thirty  day of  years since that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated, that she was af- terwards married to Jonathan M c Duffee who died on Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before the twenty sixth day of March A. D. 1815; and that she was a widow on the 4 th July 1836 and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
I hereby certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
Lois M c Duffee Sworn to and subscribed, on the day & year above written before me in open court. And I certify the ap- licant to be a person of truth.
Daniel C. Athkinson Judge of Probate

James Estlinan Judge of Probate
State of New Hampshire
Shafford J. I. Ira A. Eastman Reg- ister of Probate of said county hereby certify that Daniel C. Atkinson is Judge of Probate of said county and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate of said county this seventeenth day of May A. D. 1839.
Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate

V No 7471 N. 76.
Lois M c Duffee formerly widow of John Drew act 7 July 1838
See bareat
Widow Drews papers
66 96

  ✓ John Drew Capt 2 d Regiment  Dr     Sundries dld by Voight  8  1 5    ditto by the Board of War  41  9    Arrearage  6     Paid by the Continental in 1777  77 0 0  } 93    ditto in 78  16 11  
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Nov 8 1776 resigned Aug 31 1778
By 12 Months in 1777 By 8 Months in 1778
144 96 240

State of New Hampshire Office of Secretary of State
December 24 th 1842
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original and of the whole of said original the same having been examined and compared by me
The original contains no marks or alterations of any kind which are not represented in the copy and may be found in the Vol "Seamans Asylum Regiments" Page 232 of the records returned to this Office January 1841.
In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State
James Livermore Secretary of State

Th: Drew d. 1811.
Lou M c Duffee m. 1784 S.
Maned Jm c M c Duffee who d. 1815

April 18 1844
Post
J. S. Edwards Mrs. D. H. H.
Esq.
Corr. of Penns. Washington City
John L. Woodbury Senate

Mr. Woodhury's respects to Mr. Edmonds & encloses Mr. Lagsdell's reply to his decision - in Mrs. Mr. Duffee's case -
Senate Chamber
18 Apr 1844

file with. Lois M c Duffus papers
FREE
Hon. Levi Woodbury U. S. Senate Washington D.C.
Telegrams to Washington

George Town Dc April 16 th 1844 Hon. Levi Woodbury Sir Sir
Your Note of the 13 inst. enclosing me the then Copies of the Bill Lois Mc Duffee the Widow of Capt. John Drew which I enclose you on the 9 inst. asking of you the favor to enclose those papers to the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions with a view to facilitate the result in that Bill as duly returned together with the Commissioners answer and a Copy of his letter to the Hon. J. A. Wright of the 30 of March, for your kind & prompt attention to this business I am much obliged; & I am certain she will feel grateful, and I am not a little surprised to learn for the first time the fact (if such it be) that Mrs. Drew was divorced from Capt. Drew "soon after her marriage from information confidentially communicated," as said the Commissioner. When Mrs. Mc Duffee applied to me by her friend to aid in getting her claim I told her as the Law then stood in 1838, she could not obtain a pension but advised her to make her Declaration & put it on file as I was of the Opin- ion that Congress would do away with the Law depriving Claimants on account of the 2 nd Marriage & it might be

important to have this declaration on file in case of her death that her heirs might obtain the benefit etc -
That now I know that she had been divorced from Capt Drew I should have advised to have stated the fact in the Declaration as I am clearly of the opinion that if she  she was divorced by any gross misconduct of Capt. Drew and if Drew did not afterwards marry before he died that the said Lois is still entitled both justly & legally should it turn out to be the fact that she was divorced, as above said all of which I shall immediately take measures to learn for the Record of N-H. Courts must show it if it be so - The reason of my sending these papers through your Hon, was you being the Senator from her & my Section of the State of whom we had a respectful right to ask aid & that I had understood that the pension Department would answer a requisition of a Member of Congress to a case at once out of the regular turn when they would not answer an agent of a Claimant until its turn & that the business of the Office was 12 Months behind hand Consequently I should not get an answer for 12 Months & 2 nd as the Commission letter to Mr. Wright of the B.O. stated that Capt. Drew died in 1811. I thought he must have referred to a different declaration than the one under which I was Claiming. for as it will be seen that in Mrs. Mc Duffes declaration of the 17 th of May 1839 she declared that he died about 30 years from that time and Elder. Burwell corroborates the same in his Affidavit as he

preached the funeral Sermon of Capt Dow, which would make his death in 1809, & I thought this declaration under which I was acting was sufficiently explicit. otherwise I should have sent at once to New Hampshire for a Declaration as required by the Commissioners letter to Mr Wright. I have been thus particular to give you & the Commissioners the facts of my course, for God forbid that I should ever attempt to get any thing of the Govt, myself or for others wrongfully & knowingly - I have been a recognized agent for pensioners at the Department ever since the passage of the Law of 1818, & my communications have uniformly been promptly answered & attended to and I dare say the Department will do me the justice that they never have found any corruption, or frauds in any of my communications or actions in the numerous cases I have transacted aided in that Department -
I have been thus particular to do away any thing that might be supposed wrong by me in "urging" the Claim through you -
I also make this explanation, in order to vindicate myself from the imputation of having "Carefully Concealed" any fact in relation to this Matter - I have been acquainted with Mrs Mc Duffer for many years & she is a highly respectable Woman for any thing I ever heard or knew and if she was divorced as stated it must have been some 10 or 12 years before I was Born -
P.S. I am Very Respectfully your Obedt & Humble Servt after perusal here the copy to Pleasor Cogswell enclose it to the Commissioners if you please

preached the funeral Sermon of Capt Drew, which would make his death in 1809, & I thought this declaration under which I was acting was sufficiently explicit. Otherwise I should have sent at once to New Hampshire for a Declaration as required by the Commissioners letter to Mr Wright. I have been thus particular to give you & the Commission the facts of my course for God forbid that I should ever attempt to get any thing of the Govt. myself or for others wrongfully & knowingly - I have been a recognized agent for petitioners at the Department ever since the passage of the Law of 1818, & my communications have uniformly been promptly answered & attended to and I dare say the Department will do me the justice that they never have found any corruption that corruption or frauds in any of my communications or actions in the numerous cases I have transacted aided in that Department -
I have been thus particular to do away any thing that might be supposed wrong by me in "serving" the Claim through you -
I also make this explanation, in order to vindicate myself from the imputation of having "Carefully Concealed" any fact in relation to this Matter - I have been acquainted with Mrs. M c Duffer for many years & she is a highly respectable Woman for any thing I ever heard or knew and if she was divorced as stated it must have been some 10 or 12 years before I was born -
P.S. I am Very Respectfully your O b t & Humble Servt After perusal here the routing to Pleason to go well enclose it to the Commissioner if you please

Sir
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Apr 12
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I have the honor to return you Mr. Cogswell's copy of the papers in the case of Lois McDuffie. This commentary on the decision communicated in my letter to Hon. J. A. Wright a copy of which is herewith enclosed. If the statement of Mr. Cogswell could be rec d ? as a compliance with the requisitions of that letter it would be decisive of her claim. This claimant asserted a claim in 1840 under the act of 7 July 38 th which was rejected on account  because of the second marriage. This ground of objection was removed by the act of 23 Aug 42 under which act her claim is now to be asserted. And by Mr. Cogswell's admission she was a femme covert of the third marriage when the act passed of 23 Aug 42 & is so at this time. Previous to the passage of that act, she was not entitled because she was not the widow of the rev'd soldier. & at the date before & since the passage of the act she is not a widow. But Sir from information confidentially communicated, the claimant was divorced very soon after marriage from the rev'd Officer and in his life time married

McDuffie, and in no sense of the word is, she, or has she been the " moor " of a revoy officer — These facts are carefully suppressed and her claim urged upon the Dept. thro' you by Mr Loggins notwithstanding the formal requisition which was made upon the claimant for a full statement — Mr Loggins will say that after the death of Capt Drew about 1809 claimant married M. Duffie. The information of the Dept. is otherwise — When she complies with the requirements of my letter to Mr Wright it will be determined
Hon. Levi Woodbury Senate.
Hon. Eliz Woodbury April 12 1841

Washington City March 28 th 1844
Dear Sir
I have again to regret you, to enclose the papers of the case of Lois Macluff, that I sent you some time in December last,
Yours very Respectfully, J. A. Wright

Washington City
Dec 29 th 1843
Dear John L. Edwards
Sir
You will find enclosed the proof required by you, in your letter of August 30 th 1842, in the application of Louis Nic Dufre application for a Pension under the act of Congress of 1838, granting Pensions to Indians, and I hope that it will be satisfactory, and that the Pension certificate will be issued. Your attention is respectfully called to the subject.
Yours very respectfully
Joseph A. Wright of Indiana

Dec 13 1841 Farmington Mt to Dec 9.
Free
Com J. L. Edwards Esq-
Louis McDuffie
Commissioner of Pensions Washington P. G.

Farmington N.H. Dec. 9-1842
J. L. Edwards Esq,
In the same confidential manner as I wrote before in relation to this subject, I again write, in answer to yours of 2 d Inst. The application to which I alluded, will probably, be made, if ever made, in the name of Lois Mc c uffee , who was once the wife, but never the widow of Capt. John Drew—
The facts in the case are these—This Lady was once married to Drew, but subsequently on her own Petition for good cause , under our Statute, was divorced —Afterwards was married to one Mc c uffee of Alton in this State, with whom she lived many years and brought up a family of children, but at length Mc c uffee died; and she was a widow when the Pension laws were passed, tho' she now is the wife of one Geo. Brewster of Wolfboro rough in this State, she having been married to him within the last year —
Capt. Drew, subsequent to the divorce, lived with another woman, but whether ever married to that woman or not, I never knew—She, however, has been dead a long while—
All I need add, I suppose, is the ground of my suspicion relation to their being an appli ca

application about to be made, and this probably, I had better keep to myself - but I will say, I have been applied to several times in this case & have as often discouraged the attempt.
Mrs. Brewster is a very respectable woman & would not willingly be guilty of any thing improper in the premises, but she has been surrounded by some keen eyed Pension-hunters, who will not boggle at any thing to gain their object, especially when a large sum of money is at stake - They know it is easy to prove the marriage to Drew, and Drew's death and the demise of Mr. Duffee they &c, all this, probably has been done; and mean to keep the marriage with Brewster out of sight, even by perjury, if they can't get along without -
You will readily see why the application, if made, should be in the name of Lois M c Duffee - I forbear to say more -
Respectfully yours
Nehemiah Eastman

Pearson Logsdon Aug. 30, 1842

434 Sun 4 Aug 30
42
Sir
Agreeably to your request the claim of Mrs Lois M c Duffee who claims for the services of her first husband Capt. John Drew has been examined. The proof is satisfactory as to the date of the marriage & the alleged service of 3 mos in 75. & 9 mos in 76 but the service of 77 & 78 should be sustained by the certificate of the Compt r .
Thomson Cogswell Esq Georgetown D.C.

P. Bogussee
Nov 28 1840
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Pinner Officer 180 Nov 29 1840
Sir
The law granting pennies to widows passed July 1838, provides for those only who have not married since the death of the husband on account of which service a pension is claimed. Mrs. Lois M. Duffee, formerly the widow of Capt. M. Drew is not entitled under the Act. Her papers are placed upon our file
Yours &c July 7 1838
Pension Commissioner Washington DC
7471

Gardner Falls Sep 8. 241 OC

Pension Office Sept 8, 1841
123
Sir
The paper in the case of Mrs Lois McCuffee, formerly the widow of Captain M c Drew of the N th line have been placed upon our files. The act of July 7, 1838, under which she applies for a pension does not provide for those who have married since the death of the husband or account of who are receiving a pension & claimed
The marriage of Mrs Drew therefore to Genl M c Duffee precludes her from receiving the benefits of said act
Yours
Gardner Farlee Esq Bradley's Falls See N th
July 7 1838 7994

A. Muster & Pay Roll of Men raised for Canada out of Col. Evans and Col. Badger's Regiments Mustered and paid by this Baker's Brigade
John Dore, Rank - Captain - two months pay to officers £ 16. 0 Traveling fees 16. 8 3/4 D. L. D. Total 16. 8 3/4
State of New Hampshire Office of Sec y of State, May 14 th 1839
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the original Records in this Office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State.
Jonah Stevens Sec y of State

Per 1812 D.
June 27th 1936
Veterans Administration, Department of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I have received all of the information that is afforded by the records in the Adjutant Generals Office regarding CAPTAIN JOHN DREW AND CAPTAIN WILLIAM McDUFFEE AND CAPTAIN DANIEL McDUFFEE.
They suggest that there may further record of their service or of their family due to pension requests and I am writing to ask that you investigate this for me.
These men were all of the New Hampshire line in the Revolutionary War.
CAPTAIN JOHN DREW , served in John Waldron's New Hampshire Regiment. Also shows as Captain of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment under Colonel Nathan Hale. He was commissioned Nov 8 1776 and discharged August 30 1778.
Captain WILLIAM McDUFFEE , Tashe's 2nd New Hampshire Regiment.
Captain Daniel McDUFFEE Captain of a company designated as Captain Daniel McDuffees regiment, Colonel Stephen Evans Regiment New Hampshire militia. Entered service Sept. 8 1777 and was discharged Dec 15 1777.
Will you please give me whatever data that you may find regarding these men. The names of members of their families and of places and locations that they were living at the time of pension request will be so appreciated.
Thanking you most sincerely,
Virginia Stone Burrill
Mrs F C Burrill 1218 24th Longview Washington.
Purchased by Q.M.

5-2 Willard Ave. Springfield Mass. Mar 15, 1933
Director of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
In the History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Vol III page 282 Revolutionary War Records Including Pension Documents Relating to Fairfield Soldiers abstracted by Miss Kate S. Curry edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. It says Pension Files S 14410. Sanford James Fairfield County 22 Oct 1833 James Sanford aged 70 years 10 mos and over. On 1 Dec 1778 when three Brigades of Continentals were encamped in Redding he enlisted for 4 months under Captain John Drew of Redding, the Conductor of teams in General Poor's New Hampshire Brigade and carried provisions from Danbury. W. E. Gummer the historian of Redding also says

(in his Revolutionary 2 Soldiers of Redding) that John Drew was a conductor of teams in General Poole's New Hampshire Brigade during their encampment at Redding Conn during the winter 1778-79.
I wrote the adjutant General for a record of John Drew of Redding Conn and also one of Mark Stacy of Sturbridge Mass. In his reply to my letter he stated he could not find a record of either of these men but as the records in his office were far from complete, there was a possibility you might be able to give me the desired information.
Mark Stacy of Sturbridge Mass. is given in Soldiers & Sailors of Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War. He is given as a private in Captain Wm J Campbell's Co. Colonel Learned's Regiment.
I am descended from both of these men and any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Yours truly,
Mary Drew

In reply to your request, for a statement of the military history of John Drew a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. R. 6696.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 2 mos. Captain at Winter Hill N.H.   July 1776 6 mos. " Thompson Deac. Newman   Jan'y 1777 to Fall 1778 " Second trip N.H.  
Battles engaged in, Stillwater & taking of Burgoyne.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, his widow, Mar. 17, 1839
Residence at date of application, Wolfborough, Strafford Co. N.H.
Age at date of application, she was seventy-three years of age, born in August.
Remarks: soldier married Barnstead Aug. 17, 1784, Lois Parker. They had one child 'Markie', who died aged 4 mos. John Drew died 1809 or 1811 & Lois Drew married Jonathan McDuffee of Alton, N.H., who d. Mch. 26 or 27, 1815, & she married 1842 George Brewster. Her claim was not allowed, she was not entitled to pension as she had been divorced from John Drew.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Office note: She had been divorced from Drew & married McDuffee before Drew died so 5-2856 she was in no sense the widow of Drew. AND
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April 4, 1933
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Mary Drew 52 Willard Avenue Springfield, Massachusetts
James Sanford, S. 14410 John Drew, R. 6696 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
You are furnished herein the histories of James Sanford and John Drew, as requested in your letter of March 15, 1933.
JAMES SANFORD, S. 14410
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 14410, based upon the Revolutionary War service of James Sanford.
He was born November 13, 1758, in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not stated.
While a resident of said Redding, Connecticut, he enlisted May 3, 1778, and served until August 5, 1778, as a private in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Connecticut company. He enlisted August 9, 1778, and served until November 10, 1778, as a private in Captain Thomas Nash's Connecticut company. He enlisted December 1, 1778, served four months in the Continental team service, with his own team, under Captain John Drew in General Poor's brigade, and was engaged in carrying provisions for the brigade from the commissary at Danbury. He volunteered in April, 1779, continued in said team service under Captain Simson and was discharged June 4 or 5, 1779. He enlisted August 1, or in September, 1779, and served about three months as a private in Captains John Gray's and Thomas Nash's Connecticut companies at Fairfield, Connecticut, and guarded the shores of Long Island Sound. He enlisted in August, 1780, and served two months as a private in Captain Isaac Jarvis' Connecticut company and was engaged in guarding the fort at Black Rock in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He enlisted in May, 1781, and served as a private in Captains John Gray's and Thomas Nash's Connecticut companies at Greens Farms Society in Fairfield, Connecticut, and guarded the shores of Long Island Sound; length of this tour two months.

James Sanford was allowed pension on his application executed October 22, 1833, while a resident of Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
In 1833, soldier's brother, John Sanford, aged sixty-six years and a resident of Redding, Connecticut, testified in support of the soldier's claim for pension.
In 1833, Anne Lyon, aged seventy-two years, soldier's sister, who was residing in Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut, also testified in soldier's claim.
In 1833, Oliver C. Sanford was Clerk of the Probate Court at Weston, Connecticut; his relationship to soldier was not stated.
The names of Aaron Sanford and Hawley Sanford also appear in the claim, but no details nor their relationship to soldier are given.
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JOHN DREW, R. 6696
The papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 6696, based upon service of John Drew in the War of the Revolution, do not show the date and place of his birth nor the names of his parents.
John Drew at the commencement of the Revolution was residing in Barrington, New Hampshire. He served at various times in the Revolutionary War as captain of a company of New Hampshire troops: in 1775, two months at Winter Hill; six months from July, 1776, at Ticonderoga in Colonel Isaac Wyman's New Hampshire regiment, and from January, 1777, to August, 1778, in the 2 nd New Hampshire Regiment; during his last tour he was in battles on September 19 and October 7, 1777, at the taking of Burgoyne.
John Drew married at Barnstead, Strafford County, New Hampshire, August 17, 1784 (as shown by official records), Lois Tasker who was

born in August, 1766. He was a resident of Barnstead or Madbury, New Hampshire, and she of said Barnstead. They were married by one John Tasker, an acting justice of peace, whose relationship to Lois Tasker was not shown. They had one child named "Marke" who died at the age of four years. John Drew and his wife, Lois, were divorced shortly after marriage. He died August 15, 1809, or 1811.
Lois Drew married (date not given) before the death of John Drew, Jonathan McDuffee, of Alton, New Hampshire. Jonathan McDuffee and his wife, Lois, brought up a family of children, the only name given being "Sarah Brewster" a daughter with whom the widow, Lois, was living in 1841, and who stated that her mother had lived with her with the exception of seven months. Jonathan McDuffee died March 26 or 27, 1815, in Wolfborough, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
Lois McDuffee married sometime in 1842 George Brewster, of Wolfborough, New Hampshire.
On May 17, 1839, Lois McDuffee, former widow of the soldier, John Drew, while a resident of Wolfborough, New Hampshire, applied for pension that might be due her on account of the Revolutionary War service of John Drew.
The claim was not allowed as she was not entitled to pension on account of having been divorced from John Drew, the soldier upon whose service in the Revolutionary War she based her claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

Feb 25/57 no paper P.S. 100
cancel Mr. Dimes
Louis
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Edwards G Com d of Pensions Washington D.C.
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E. Alton N.H. Jany. 16 th 1830
To the Hon d
Sir
A second application is being made for a pension by Lois Brewster, through P. Cogswell Egan her agent. A brief statement of the facts in this case will only be necessary (in the opinion of many in this vicinity) to convince every one of the injustice of this claim. Lois Brewster, whose maiden name was Farker, first married Capt. John Drew of Madbury, from whom she was divorced after a short cohabitation and subsequently married Iona M c Duffee on whose death she was for the third time married to her present husband Brewster. Her claim is for Revolutionary services of Capt. John Drew and has once been rejected but another trial is to be had, under promise to the Agent of one half received.
If in addressing Your Honor I have intruded or addressed the wrong department please impute it to my zeal for justice to be done as well to the Government as to those who are actually deserving of their Country. X Drew Resp t Your Hon d Ob t

Dec 26 44 Gilmanton from Works N.H. free Dec. 23 rd
Mrs. Bradburn Linsion See no. 2
Office off Washington D.C.
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East Alton Belknap Co. N.H. To any person at Washington belonging to the Pension Office.
I am anxious to know whether the Widow, of John Drew a Revolu- tionary Capt., is on the pension list. By giving information as soon as convenient, you will much oblige Your Ob t Serv t S. D. Buzzell.
December 21. 1844

apl 10 1844
In at D6
J. H. Stephens L. H. Duff
Esq. Comm. of Pension Washington City
True Hon. L. Woodbury Senate U.S.

Washington, 10th. Ap. 1844
Dear Sir,
By the request of Pearson Cagswell Esq., as agent for Mrs. Mrs. Duffie I would invite your attention to her case - as exhibited in the papers, of which the enclosed are stated by him to be copies - An early decision is much desired & would confer an obligation on him & the lady, he represents. He wishes me to state, that the communication, made to Mr. Wright of Ind. - does not relate to this declaration, but a dif- ferent one - as you will see by referring to your letter to Mr. Cagswell of Aug. 30th. 1842 -
Respectfully
Lean Woodberry

Aug 27. 1842
Miss Lois M c Gruffee
L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

George Town D.C. August 27 th 1842
Sir
In answer to yours of the 3 rd instant I would respectfully say that as Congress has passed a Law & which has now become the Law of the Land that Widows of Revolutionary Officers & Soldiers shall be entitled to a pension Notwithstanding their Re-Marriage if they were a Widow at the time they applied for a pension in the Case of the Widow of Capt John Drew of the Revolutionary War and Subsequently the Widow of James Mc Duffee & Resident of Wolfborough N.H. who gave her declaration on the 17 th of July 1839 which declaration & accompanying papers was enclosed to you by me Nov 20 th 1840. I now ask of you to take up those papers & examine them and see if there is any thing now to prevent her being placed upon the pension roll for the services of her late Husband Capt John Drew. Will you have the goodness to inform me as soon as may be by return of mail to this Town as I may have to send to N.H. to get the evidence from their records of his services. The Legislature of that State having called home its records but I think the evidence of his service is still in your department of that fact you will please inform me & the amount so that I may be able to know whether to put her to the expense of sending to N.H. or Not for further evidence of service in Respectfully Pearson Goyswell order to give her a full pension

I Samuel Belbasson of Abbotton borough , in the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire Eighty two yrs of age do hereby certify that I was a private ser- geant, Ensign and Lieutenant in the Revolution and served from 1775 to June 1783. in the 2 d Hamps- hire Regiment. That I have been well acquainted with Luis McDofer now of Wolfborough and formerly of Barnstead, whose first husband was Captain John Drew late of Barnstead deceased; that the said John Drew was married to Lois Tashor (as I then understood, and always supposed) some- time between the years Seventeen hundred and eighty three and Seventeen hundred and eighty six at said Barnstead; that I am enabled to give the date of said Marriage by the following circumstances viz. I moved into said Barnstead in April 1784 and was married to my present wife in November 1786. and that the said John and Lois were married and had one child previous to my marriage in 1786. I was well acquainted with said John and Lois, and was at their house frequently when they lived together as husband and wife previous to my own marriage. That I lived in said Barnstead from 1784 till 1790. and cannot be mistaken in regard to the date of the said John and Lois Marriage further do hereby certify that the said John Drew commanded a Company in the 2 d H. Regiment from Spring  January 1777 to June  November 1778 the Fall of 1778 when he resigned at White Plains

That the said Drew was at the Battle of September 19 th and 7 th of October 1777 in taking Burgoyne
Samuel B. Mason
State of New Hampshire Moultonborough February 19. 1841 Subscribed and sworn by the said Samuel B. Mason Who Then being Certified is a respectable, intelligent witness before me David Murray Notary Public

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Mr. Stevens
No 7471
W.H.
July 7. 1838
Wash
of Mr Ewan
Dear Sir,
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

George Town D.C. Nov 21 st 1848
James Edwards Esq -
Sir I enclose you the pension papers of the Widow of the late Capt John Drew of New Hampshire who was a Capt in the Revolutionary war from said State the Widow Drew after the death of her said Husband married Jonathan McDiffie as will be seen by her Declaration. Which seems by the present Constitution of the war Department she is not entitled to the provisions of the Act of Congress July 7 th 1838 and the Object of presenting the papers to you in order to receive the rejection of the Claim on that account via and also that you would give me the particular account of Capt Drews services from the New Hampshire Rolls so as to Enable me to draft a Petition to Congress for her in order to obtain a special Act of Congress in her favor the Coming Session. - please have the Goodness to give me an answer to the above as soon as may be as the Petition will have to be sent to New Hampshire for her to sign
Yours Respectfully Pearson Elysewell
P.S. It will be recollected I asked you yesterday the mode of a Guardians drawing the Money of a Pensioner after 8 Months had elapsed from the date of the Certificate before Called for. I presume you have some printed forms of application now the Guardian should make out and regulate his papers - will you have the goodness to enclose me those regulations as I wish to send them to the Guardian at New Hampshire so that he may send by some of our members of Congress when they come on
P. Elysewell
Please direct to me at George Town District of Columbia -